Thanks for all the work you're putting in on this and for taking the time to honestly express your views on AI and development.

I'll be the first to admit that in general I'm an AI hater, and think that in the big picture this current cycle has done a lot of damage to society in terms of wasted resources (natural and financial) and accelerated us all into a place where what we see and hear simply can't be trusted any longer. It's gross to think of the hundreds of billions being spent on it while people are starving and homeless.

At the same time, I also see that some of the latest models are incredible tools for software development, and have made it possible to get some things done that are sorely needed in OSS. It's my understanding that a lot of the open source models that can be run on affordable hardware are not that far behind the big expensive frontier models. While I really do believe that the current OpenAI/Athropic rise is a bubble that needs to pop sooner than later to prevent greater damage to society, I also think there's no sense in wasting a good tool.

The fact is that Pandora's Box has been opened. Even if the big players all shut down development tomorrow, the tools are still out there and will still be used. For better or worse, outright bans on LLM-generated code will only cause the people using the tools to try to hide what they've done.

My sense is that there's a growing distinction between "slop" and useful output (for lack of a better term). It's easy to churn out slop that might get the job done while making a mess of things, but a capable human in the loop directing things and working to achieve the goal with top quality will likely always make the difference. Software development is particularly well suited to this because of its iterative nature.

In our increasingly polarized society with increasingly short attention spans, we all want simple black-and-white answers to things. I hope that developers, maintainers, and enthusiasts can come to appreciate the nuance of the situation. And I think your post describes that nuance well.

Take care of yourself, and I wish you the best in your endeavors.

I'm curious what it'll mean for this one: https://openrepos.net/content/munkstolen/fiat-pons-native-qobuz-client

Says it's built on a qbz-qobuz rust library, so if that's from the same qbz developer and the library got pulled, it'll make things difficult moving forward for them.

That's what baffles me in this kind of situation. The dev basically did their job for them, and now they're leaving happy paying Linux subscribers out in the cold. Just hire the clearly passionate and talented developer and make the product offering that much better!

Now when I look for Qobuz apps for Linux, all I'm seeing are weird little download utilities to essentially steal music from the service. Gabe Newell sure had it right.

Not a definition of intelligence, but something I often come back to is what it does at rest.

To the best of my understanding of how LLMs work, if you're not feeding the thing inputs, the program is doing absolutely nothing. It isn't curious and doesn't seek new information or stimuli. It effectively is just on pause until the next prompt. There is nothing akin to an inner monologue or thought process happening in absence of what is fed to it.

I'm not up on all of the epistemology or theory of mind type stuff, but I'd imagine some might argue about that distinction in humans; we are always processing input in some form as the input from our senses is never shut off until we're dead. But I think the "at rest" case is a relevant distinction that does get at motivation and real thought born of real intelligence.

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That's up to Microsoft.

He was already fired because of the incident. I'm not holding my breath for meaningful legal consequences, but at least he's not getting paid leave during the trial.

I think the best part of this is that there's no apology or even the slightest acknowledgment of what a shitshow Windows has become. Just "listening to feedback" and "improving the experience".

In addition to what others have said, it can also indicate different issues on different printers. Is it a core-xy or bedslinger?

If it's not just an issue with a dished bed, there could be twist along your x-axis which are moving the nozzle (or probe) slightly further from the bed in the middle. Could be wire/bowden routing putting a slight strain on the toolhead.

Do the mesh results look roughly the same when cold versus, say, a 30 minute heat soak?

Get out your popcorn because this should be fun to watch. They're already vibe coding all of the value and stability out of their OS.

As someone who only still has a Window install because Wine can't handle the CAD tools I rely on, I look forward to the day when Linux becomes a more attractive platform to release professional software for. I'm not holding my breath for the Year of the Linux Desktop but I can certainly enjoy the ride of MS's self sabotage to get there.

I suppose I worded that poorly. I meant that the firmware and protocol are open while the Android/iOS apps are not. My intent was to clarify what was open/closed, not obfuscate.

Directly from MeshCore's docs:

5.7. Q: Is MeshCore open source?

A: Most of the firmware is freely available. Everything is open source except the T-Deck firmware and Liam's native mobile apps.

Like I said, I'd prefer to see those closed bits also being developed openly and as a community, and there's nothing to stop anyone from that endeavor. I also get that the mobile app dev has put in a lot of work on both the closed and open source pieces of the project, and he's gotta eat.

I could be off the mark here, but I think it's a little more complicated than that. I believe Meshtastic has trademarks on the name and logo, and they went so far as to shut down a project that was attempting to allow a device to switch between Meshtastic and Meshcore firmwares.

On the other hand, Meshcore is all open, however the client apps are closed source and on a sort of fremium model aimed at supporting the developer. Mobile apps have a 10 second wait to admin router nodes, which can be removed by a one time fee ($9, I think?). And then there's a more feature rich firmware for the LilyGo T-Deck (cool standalone Blackberry-like device) which has a paid option.

I'd like to see open source community developed apps, and I don't think there's anything to stop anyone from writing new ones, other than the fact that the existing ones work well and the paid features make for a cheap an easy way to support the project.

If I'm wrong about any of that, I hope someone else with a better understanding can chime in.